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As January is usually the most bloated month of the year, thirty one days spent regretting the excesses of Christmas and the New Year, breaking newly minted resolutions and looking with jaded eyes at the second rate crap one has managed to accumulate, I decided to reverse the trend and declare January ‘Fun Month’. (This,…
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Got home from the Remission Tour and promptly headed off again (took one look at a partially renovated house, overgrown garden, pile of paperwork, various unfinished projects and decided it was all took much). My cousin Julien had just arrived back in Australia from Cambodia, with other members of his band The Cambodian Space Project;…
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e A strange thing has happened. For the most part I loathed growing up in Tasmania, (Peter Conrad’s book Down Home: revisiting Tasmania said it all for me: ‘this was not the life I wanted; somehow I’d been given the wrong one’) but lately, the last ten years or so, I’ve felt this irresistable pull…
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A bit about the picture first… This is an oil painting, approx 4′ x 4′ square (must get into metric someday), painted this year and titled ‘Tea with Miss Fox was always an awkward affair’. It’s currently on display at Despard Gallery, Tasmania, as part of their Christmas exhibition. The technique is a bit different…
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humananimalsmall Various projects, and lack of an internet connection at home, have doomed this blog to be yet another floating digital void. However in my own vague way I’m determined to continue with it; this sense that it may be useful in some way, I’m just not sure how yet. The attached pdf shows one…
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This blog was originally supposed to be just about painting; I wanted to write about the everyday processes of the craft (a bit like trying to make a blow by blow description of washing up interesting) but I suppose some digressions are inevitable. Whenever I start thinking about a particular image it seems to be…
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And here’s The Waterhole, the final painting I finished for the Despard exhibition.
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And here’s the final version of The Secret…
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Incidentally, the second confession I mentioned at the start of today’s blog was to do with the combined forces of technophobia, laziness and being extremely busy. As part of the University’s support for PhD students I was given a brand spanking new Apple laptop, which err… I had no idea how to use. So I…
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By the way, these heart shaped paintings are quite small, the Despard exhibition eventually had nine small hearts and three large oil paintings: The Secret, A Tasmanian Childhood and The Waterhole. As well as a few pen and ink/watercolour drawings and a couple of old oil paintings. The older work included one abstract from a…
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 